Greatest (The Go-Go's album)

Greatest
Greatest hits album by
ReleasedOctober 5, 1990
Recorded1981–1984, 1990
GenrePop rock, new wave, post-punk
Length46:45
LabelI.R.S.
The Go-Go's chronology
Talk Show
(1984)
Greatest
(1990)
Return to the Valley of the Go-Go's
(1994)
Singles from Greatest
  1. "Cool Jerk" / "We Got the Beat"
    Released: 1990
Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
The Village VoiceA

Greatest is a 1990 compilation album by American rock band the Go-Go's. The record, which represents the first best-of album by the Go-Go's, includes most of the hits and stand-out tracks from the band's first three studio albums, 1981's Beauty and the Beat, 1982's Vacation, and 1984's Talk Show, only omitting three minor hit singles, "He's So Strange", "This Old Feeling", and "Yes or No".

The collection does not include any new songs, except for a re-recording of the band's cover version of "Cool Jerk" (which had first been covered by the band on Vacation), which was also released as the one single from the compilation, reaching number 60 on the UK Singles Chart in 1991 and becoming the second Go-Go's song to ever enter the British charts (the third and highest UK hit from the band would eventually be "The Whole World Lost Its Head", peaking at number 29, from their second greatest hits album, 1994's Return to the Valley of the Go-Go's).

A mint-green vinyl re-release of the album was released through Target in July 2020.